WordPress asking for my FTP credentials to install plugins

Question

I installed a WordPress blog in my local system. But when I try to add plugins from admin it asks for FTP access. What do I need to configure for WordPress to be able to up

Answer 1

I did a local install of WordPress on Ubuntu 14.04 following the steps outlined here and simply running:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data {path_to_your_project_directory}

solved my issue with downloading plugins. The only reason I'm leaving this post here is because when I googled my issue, this was one of the first results and it led me to the solution to my problem.

Hope this one helps to anyone!